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- | LYRICS SONGS FOR THE CROOKED PATH |
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- TIME
lyrics by R. N. Taylor and Wolfgang Weiss
- and now our time comes
- and now our time comes
there will come a time
- we said
- but time only goes
- the fading of the rainbow
- the closing of a rose
- we’ll make the time
- we vowed
- but times already made
- impatient as the twilight
- elusive as the shade
- and now our time comes
- and now our time comes
- we’ll take the time
- we both agreed
- but time is only lived
- the clock unwinds
- and autumn leaves
- run riot in the wind
- and time just slips away
- they say
- like golden grains of sand
- and the days and nights
- we held so tight
- escape from out our hands
- and now our time comes
- and now our time comes
- and now our time comes
- and now our time comes
- and now it has gone
- and now it has gone
NOSTALGIA
- I see old spirits rise, in brown eyes
- a violet smile, a lack of control
- we failed to take the chance
- long ago, for a day like this, I would have given
- all my lifes future bliss
- in the past I longed for futile days like this
- I see old spirits rise, in your eyes
- a violet smile, a lack of control
- now we know what we have lost
- short ago, for a day like this, I would have given
- all my lifes future bliss
- I still long for fertile days like this
DESTROY YOUR LIFE
- and do you look at the stars
- and dream of your past
- it was so long ago
- oh did you ever know
- destroy your life
- I’d like to think that you destroyed your life
- I am where I always was, buried inside a tomb of dreams
- and here we are on the roof of our life, preparing to fly without wings
- all the years have passed in vain and the road gets shorter everyday now
- I was waiting for something to happen but then you just flew away
- and do you look at the stars
- and dream of your past
- it was so long ago
- oh did you ever know
- destroy your life destroy your life
- destroy your life
- and do you look at the stars
- and dream of your past
- it was so long ago
- oh did you ever know
- destroy your life destroy your life
- I’d like to think that you destroyed your life
- beneath your old house I saw horses, running free with your mourning
- to foreign shores on ships of gold, that’s where we should be going
- but there are things in me that time can never heal
- and all the voices in my head: “summer is just a dream”
- and do you look at the stars
- and dream of your past
- where did you go
- and did you ever know
- destroy your life destroy your life
- destroy your life
- and do you look at the stars
- and dream of your past
- where did you go
- and did you ever know
- destroy your life destroy your life
- I’d like to think that you destroyed your life
UNDERNEATH STARS WITHOUT A SKY
- look, the birds are falling down
- just like rain they reach the ground
- and all the fools keep bleating
- oh look, the White Ship, over there
- come here, but dog damned days are near
- I think someone tears my heart apart
- I revisit a place I found with you
- with the memory all the pain comes, too
- now the stars have no sky
- imperfection and you lie
- the cosmic chaos of life and of lights
- oh I think I loved you at first sight
- now all fell down and fell dead
- and left me here with nothing
FIRST SONG
- wait, here we stand
- starry-eyed at the crossroads
- I do not pretend
- here we stand once again
- I’m just passing by – come crashing into your life
- uncertainty
- not enough time
- let’s hesitate forever
- as I stumble I await my fall
- I’m just passing by – here crawling into your life
- let loose your dolphins to tear me apart
- let loose your cats to feast on my heart
- let loose your friends to defile my name
- let loose a love to engulf me with pain
- I’m just passing by and here is your first song
- and the light in your eyes, glimmer or pity
- let loose your dolphins to tear me apart
- let loose your cats to feast on my heart
- let loose your friends to defile my name
- let loose a love to engulf me with pain
- I’m just passing by, sharing your fear of getting old
- and now I remember that your hair was golden
SHINE
there could be a future, I see it bright, I don´t see it clear
- there is a place, I´m part of it with you
- there is joy and all the pleasure
- and there is also something I longed for
- I´d give it all up, I´d throw it all away
- but all that´s left is me here in despair
- hear the serenade
- this serenade of my soul
- my tearful words for you to shine
- maybe you are present right now
- and maybe I point at you right now
- and if you are not
- I wish it would be
- that you would listen to my wail
- I want to wave farewell to my lament
- forget all my pain, my waking hours
- I´ll wake you in the morning
- in a time when luck is mine
- I await a time for me to shine
AND NEVER RETURN
- a different world waits for me
- a hideaway from all that’s wrong
- across the waves to enchanted isles
- far away and there we’ll stay
- we all live troubled lives
- but I’d rather stay here in the dark
- you like the west but I go north
- there is more than one true love
- I’m just passing by and people change
- hearing you say “people change”
- and then you blackened all the stars
- and then you never looked back
- and then you sent the gods away
- and then they never came back
- and then I saw you in my dreams
- and then you never came back
- I am still the same but people change
- hang on, it’s gone and people change
SHORES OF YESTERDAY
- here I watch the midnights go and all this searching has to stop
- and how long this road appears and how uncertain in the night
- I’ve got so far to go and oh so little time
- though I may regret tomorrow I’d say yesterday was mine
- so let us sing of the tortured heart
- so let us revisit places past
- so let us dream of chances lost
- so let us sail on ships of gold
- here the years rush like blood and what we love we hurt the most
- adrift on that special day I glanced through to another world
- but considering this and reflecting that, promises broken and nothing else left
- what is real is better than what was dreamt, but still I can dream
- we will never know
- so let us sing of the tortured heart
- so let us revisit places past
- so let us dream of chances lost
- so let us sail on ships of gold
- to the shores of yesterday
UP THE AS OF A SWAN
- Written by Todd Dillingham
IN JUNE, AS I KILLED TIME
- later as we say goodbye
- I realize, all is well for her
- it´s 3 a.m. and I don´t know that
- my reason to live is soon to come
- come with me, my horizon widened
- dawn comes fast and the birds sing loud
- my eyes are coloured with the red
- that´s on the sky and the clouds
- I see it all through a romantic haze
- and wait to be cut again
- by the not so fair
- the barbed and poisoned dart of Cupid
- tell me what friends are for
- I hate all my sadness songs
- my dreams are difficult and they
- depend on and collapse with yours
- later as we say goodbye
- I realize, all is well for her
- it´s "I don´t know" and I don´t care
- but a reason to live is yet alive
- come with me to complete my life
- night comes fast and the air is warm
- my eyes are filled with the kissing,
- glancing, loving, bleeding, singing...
- may your pains be softened
- may your throes be driven away
- may your pains be softened
- there are things that wash me away
A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
- if it’s good to live then it’s better to be asleep dreaming
- has it all gone or will I fall awake
- will I never return to be the same again
- droplets of memory are all that remain
- strange faces promising new life
- does the reward justify the loss
- all beauty burned
- burned like bridges I once crossed
- 7 years ago often more
- has it all gone or will I fall awake
- will I never return to be young again
- since it does not matter when
- why could I not die then
- if it’s good to live then it’s better to be asleep dreaming
- if it’s good to live then it’s better to be asleep dreaming
- I came to leave I start to bleed
- a dream within a dream
- another wave breaks on a foreign shore
- a dream within a dream
- all the pain that comes down on me
- a dream within a dream
- the second side of My Boy
- a dream within a dream
- nothing nothing nothing nothing
- a dream within a dream
- a hideaway unseen
- a dream within a dream
- why could I not die then
- why could I not die then
I WOKE FROM A SLEEP THAT LASTED ALL MY LIFE
- everything I’d change a whole life to rearrange
- only one dream was good only once I understood
- down the hill from where I live
- there’s a road that I never take
- have I gone out or did you come in
- I can’t remember now that I’m awake
- I never speak about what treasure I have found
- I outlived my past and silence will make it last
- down the hill from where I live
- there’s a road that I never take
- have I gone out or did you come in
- I can’t remember now that I’m awake
- you pulled me away and what more can I say
- if it was meant to be it’s now that I am free
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